Luke 16:3

Good News Translation

The servant said to himself, ‘My master is going to dismiss me from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough to dig ditches, and I am ashamed to beg.

Cross References

Esther 6:6

So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “There is someone I wish very much to honor. What should I do for this man?” Haman thought to himself, “Now who could the king want to honor so much? Me, of course.”

Proverbs 13:4

No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.

Proverbs 15:19

If you are lazy, you will meet difficulty everywhere, but if you are honest, you will have no trouble.

Proverbs 18:9

A lazy person is as bad as someone who is destructive.

Proverbs 19:15

Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.

Proverbs 20:4

A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.

Proverbs 29:21

If you give your servants everything they want from childhood on, some day they will take over everything you own.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do when God punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? Where will you run to find help? Where will you hide your wealth?

Jeremiah 5:31

prophets speak nothing but lies; priests rule as the prophets command, and my people offer no objections. But what will they do when it all comes to an end?”

Hosea 9:5

And when the time comes for the appointed festivals in honor of the Lord, what will they do then?

Matthew 20:8

“When evening came, the owner told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with those who were hired last and ending with those who were hired first.’

Mark 10:46

They came to Jericho, and as Jesus was leaving with his disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus son of Timaeus was sitting by the road.

Luke 12:17

He began to think to himself, ‘I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do?

Luke 16:2

so he called him in and said, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in a complete account of your handling of my property, because you cannot be my manager any longer.’

Luke 16:20

There was also a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who used to be brought to the rich man's door,

Luke 16:22

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the feast in heaven. The rich man died and was buried,

Luke 16:4

Now I know what I will do! Then when my job is gone, I shall have friends who will welcome me in their homes.’

Luke 18:4

For a long time the judge refused to act, but at last he said to himself, ‘Even though I don't fear God or respect people,

John 9:8

His neighbors, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, “Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?”

Acts 3:2

There at the Beautiful Gate, as it was called, was a man who had been lame all his life. Every day he was carried to the gate to beg for money from the people who were going into the Temple.

Acts 9:6

“But get up and go into the city, where you will be told what you must do.”

2 Thessalonians 3:11

We say this because we hear that there are some people among you who live lazy lives and who do nothing except meddle in other people's business.